I have allready posted this on my YouTube channel so this is for the people who don't use YouTube. Yet another photo from my archives, this is Mantles who use to advertise in Television magazine, the photo dates from 1984 we use to hire a van for the day and come back with as many GEC 2110 sets as we could get in, they were £25 each untested and we use to refurbish them, put new fablon on them ans sell for £55 each, hardly ever got a bad one as I use to take a torch and look in the back, I would only buy ones that had a pink lable stuck to the back of the CRT as this meant a new re gun tube was fitted. Photo was taken inside Mantles and only shows a small corner of the place, it was atcually rammed with thousands of ex rental TVs.
OMG! That Photo! All those TV's, TV Heaven. If only I could invent a time machine, I'd be off like a shot. Thanks for posting Michael, I love peering into the past and these photo's provide a unique view.
p.s.
I want the white one
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far better days than now
On that note, you'll get no argument from me, I feel like an alien in the 21st century on a planet populated by lunatics, governed by lunatics.
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Nice!!! a wall of TV's! That's the biggest telly pile I've ever seen! Wish I could go back and have a rummage too, I'm actually watching someone restoring a Delorean whilst replying to this! Anyone got a flux capacitor?
Regards,
Lloyd
Right you lot, get in!
*sets coordinates to 1984*
Hold on tight...
Remember these warehouses well. In the early 1970’s we would hire a van from Endeavour Motor Company, Brighton then drive to a Gibbard’s warehouse near Heathrow Airport, fill it with Invicta 7069’s (Cavalier). Oh the good old days.
We had an ex-rental warehouse in the Old Kent Road called Supertel... IIRC, mostly old DER RR and Granada TV's.
Cosmetically, a lot of them were dog rough... Those that weren't too bad went through my 'bodyshop for TV cabinets' under the lean to at the back of the shop.
I became a dab hand at rubbing down and spraying plastic cabinets and a near master of the Fablon for the wood effect cabinets!
The missus has often commented on my present wrapping skills! 😊
